In an interview forward of the season premiere, actor Angel Theory replied a well-liked question about her character: Is Kelly a boy or a girl?
AMC's standard post-apocalyptic, zombie-ridden sequence The Walking Dead has returned, following the characters in the aftermath of the Whisperer War. Most of the cast from the previous season are returning, including Angel Theory, who performs Kelly.
Ahead of the season premiere, Angel talked with Distractify about her character and to reply to one of the crucial most-Googled questions about Kelly: Is she a boy or a girl?
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Kelly used to be a boy within the comics.
Die-hard The Walking Dead lovers will know that Kelly's authentic character was a man — a tall, burly, bald, Black man. But the Kelly Angel portrays is almost fully the other. The personality we see on-screen attire very androgynously, in a similar way to Angel's personal taste.
According to Angel (who laughed when asked about Kelly's gender), the showrunners actually altered Kelly as a personality to be more like Angel, even down to the clothes she wears!
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"Even growing up, I've always been seen as like the tomboy," Angel mentioned. "I'm a very comfortable person — when I dress, it's sweatpants, hoodies, sweaters, jackets, like I'm chill."
Angel stated the earring and necklace Kelly wears at the display are the same ones she wears virtually day by day outdoor of filming.
"When I got there, I had no idea how they were going to dress Kelly or what wardrobe was going to look like, so I was really being just open-minded," she stated. "They actually already liked my style and just gave me things that just fit me [as Kelly]."
"I had no idea — I didn't even know Kelly was a guy, and then once we started off with the show, it allowed me to basically take the reigns with that and just have my own style," she continued.
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Kelly used to be moulded to be more like Angel Theory.
But Kelly's personality suits Angel even beyond that. Shortly after Angel had started filming, she mentioned the display's creators reached out to her in an e mail, asking if they may incorporate some of Angel's non-public reviews into the display, particularly her adventure with her hearing loss.
"Eventually they just kind of realized, we don't know what's going to happen with [my] hearing loss journey, so just to be on the safe side, let's incorporate it into the show and let that be seen," she mentioned.
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She stated by way of incorporating her real experiences into Kelly's character, even she was able to see simply how a long way she's come in her journey.
"I think it's been a very beautiful thing to see bits and pieces of my actual reality, seeing it on screen," she stated. "And while I'm watching myself as Kelly going through this, it just made me realize how strong I ended up having to be in my real life."
"They're so good at having so many different demographics and different people with different stories and it's not all the same," she said of the show's creators. "Hearing loss and deafness is not all the same, everyone goes through it differently and I just thought it was a beautiful thing that they incorporated into the show."
The Walking Dead airs Sundays at 9 p.m. ET on AMC.
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